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fishonfishon Posts: 984 Officer
Does anyone have an easy dyi mouse/rat poison? I see on internet equal parts sugar flour baking soda, should do the trick. But not having much luck with this. The box store sell it but I took a lot of it last time and I did not like using it due to my dog.
Triton 1870 Bay Sport, 115 merc. 4/stroke,
Fish Shallow saltwater, lakes central Fl. And Lake Oconee Ga.
Live in Lakeland

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  • fishonfishon Posts: 984 Officer
    These are outside mice, I do not like traps.
    Triton 1870 Bay Sport, 115 merc. 4/stroke,
    Fish Shallow saltwater, lakes central Fl. And Lake Oconee Ga.
    Live in Lakeland
  • Soda PopinskiSoda Popinski Posts: 16,809 AG
    why do you care about outside mice? They're only a problem if the come inside right?
    You can't pet a dead dog back to life 
  • CountryBumpkinCountryBumpkin Posts: 1,893 Captain
    fishon wrote: »
    These are outside mice, I do not like traps.

    Please consider making or using a trap or buying a cat.

    Stop to consider if you are poisoning outside mice it's not just your dog getting into the poison to think about.

    Hawks & owls who may be eating the mice will ingest this poison also.
  • Soda PopinskiSoda Popinski Posts: 16,809 AG
    Please consider making or using a trap or buying a cat.

    Stop to consider if you are poisoning outside mice it's not just your dog getting into the poison to think about.

    Hawks & owls who may be eating the mice will ingest this poison also.

    The other consideration is if they die in your walls, it's going to stink forever. I've climbed through attics to get rats that were caught in traps but still crawled 50' half dead to die in the most remote corner of the attic and stink the house up for weeks.

    I've also seen my golden eat a box of rat poison I had left under the grill, lick the box clean, and never eve look sick so i'm not sure how powerful that stuff actually is. We were already to put Bear in the ground, but he acted like he had just had a solid dinner, and 3 days later showed no signs of being sick at all.
    You can't pet a dead dog back to life 
  • fishonfishon Posts: 984 Officer
    Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Dragon bait, thanks
    Triton 1870 Bay Sport, 115 merc. 4/stroke,
    Fish Shallow saltwater, lakes central Fl. And Lake Oconee Ga.
    Live in Lakeland
  • FLATS BROKEFLATS BROKE Posts: 2,060 Captain
    Chickens, Cats, or Snakes.
  • Nick NikonNick Nikon Posts: 5,155 Admiral
    Chickens, Cats, or Snakes.

    Chickens?

    Really?
  • CoelacanthCoelacanth Posts: 38 Greenhorn
    Chickens act like a pack of velociraptors if they find an unlucky mouse and will eat them whole once they catch it. And are as good as outside barn cats to keep the rodent population at bay, of course your HOA will probably have issue with 20 Light Brahmas or Rhode Island Reds running around your yard
  • CoelacanthCoelacanth Posts: 38 Greenhorn
    And you can make rat traps same principle as Dragon Bait's mouse trap but use an open top 55 gallon drum and a piece of cardboard with a tasty treat the middle of it. When I was a kid would catch one every night in the feed stall.
  • Westwall01Westwall01 Posts: 5,452 Admiral
    Please consider making or using a trap or buying a cat.

    Stop to consider if you are poisoning outside mice it's not just your dog getting into the poison to think about.

    Hawks & owls who may be eating the mice will ingest this poison also.

    Very true. I've actually had to deal with a Bald Eagle while working that had ingested a mouse that had eaten poison prior to the Eagle consuming it.
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